Photo Exhibition “Spartathlon” 2017

The Sparta Photography Club and the Municipality of Sparta, with the cooperation of Coumantaros Art Gallery – Annex of National Gallery, are organizing for the first time a photo exhibition for the ultra-race “Spartathlon”....

“TECHNI GROUP” 100 YEARS The first Greek Modernists And Eleftherios Venizelos

2017 marks the 100th anniversary since the creation of the famous “Techni Group”, which has been identified—in the consciousness of those who deal with the history of modern Greek art—with the birth of modernism in Greece. Was the role of the “Techni Group” so crucial, in the few years that it was active? Did it truly revitalize the art scene in the capital, which was oversaturated...

Nafplion through travellers’ eyes from the Venetian period to the 19th century

The exhibition is organizing as part of the events by the Municipality of Nafplion and the Ioannis Kapodistrias Foundation to mark 300 years from the end of Venetian rule(1715), thinking of the Grand Tour in Greece was above all a journey in history. Captured on the pages of illustrated travel books, this journey to the remote past becomes history and knowledge in the exhibition Na...

Traveling on the boat of Greek painting (19th-20th century). From the collections of the National Gallery

The National Gallery- Museum Alexandros Soutsos in cooperation with the Municipality of Syros, presents the exhibition entitled "Traveling on the boat of Greek painting" in Ermoupolis, in the Cyclades Art Gallery. The theme of the exhibition is in harmony with the Aegean islands’ character and the atmosphere of summer holidays. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience one of the most cha...

Post-byzantine Icons from the Temple of Vamvakou, Laconia

An exhibition under the theme: “Post-byzantine Icons from the Temple of Vamvakou, Laconia” takes place from Wednesday, 13th, August. It includes 40 post-Byzantine icons coming from the temple of Vamvakou. They have been conserved at the Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd.’s expenses, which was the sponsor of the exhibition, too....

Teacher Artists from the Collections of the National Gallery

The standard summer exhibition of the National Gallery in the Old School of Kastro in Sifnos, is performed for the sixth consecutive time. In this exhibition, although the research throughout Greece, for time and space reasons, only artists-teachers who taught in Athens and whose works are available in the collections are presented. It consists of a new proposal with artists, who h...

The sea in Modern Greek Art

The annex of the National Gallery and Alexander Museum Soutsos in Nafplion organizes an exhibition entitled "The Sea in Modern Art", with works coming exclusively from the collections of the National Gallery. It aims to an acquaintance-reading of the seascape in modern Greek painting, as the sea is directly connected with the life of the Greek people, its memories and its experiences, was a sour...

Cartography of space and time ... seen through the light of history and religious belief

The Koumantareios Sparta Gallery – annex of the National Gallery, as part of the 11th multidisciplinary Medical Conference, organizes an exhibition with old maps of the wider Greek world from the collection of the Professor Professor N. Soukakos, on November 29th, 2013, 8:30pm....

Female creation from the depths of the National Gallery

For the fifth consecutive year, under the policy of decentralization and strengthening local presentation and promotion of Greek art efforts, the National Gallery has responded positively to the request for Sifnos Municipality exhibition activity on the island....

Description of human bodies. Contemporary Greek Painting from the Collection of Sotiris Felios

The annex of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Nafplio organizes the exhibition "Description of human bodies-Modern Greek painting from the Collection of Sotiris Felios", in which the protagonist is the human body, a subject that preoccupied artists of all peoples and all times. Its transformations embody the spirit of the period, the worldview, the ideology, the aesthetics, an...

Donations to the National Gallery 1959-2007

Under the policy of decentralization and strengthening of the local efforts for the presentation and promotion of Greek art, the National Gallery has responded positively to the request of Sifnos Municipality concerning the exhibition activity on the island....

The "Generation tou'30" in search of Hellenism

The annex of Nafplion organizes this exhibition emphasizing on the variations of Greek art during the decades 1930-1940. At that era the problems become anthropocentric, they change form and artists are looking for tradition, for values that become idols. They discover the symbolic world of Byzantine painting and abstraction of images, the folk art and geometric forms of texture and the harmony ...

From the Collections of the A.G. Leventis Foundation

The exhibition From the Collections of the A.G. Leventis Foundation is the outcome of a two-year-long collaboration by the two organising institutions, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, the host of the exhibition....

The unseen side. Modern Greek art from the Collections of the National Gallery

This year’s new exhibition entitled "The unseen side-Modern Greek art from the collections of the National Gallery" highlights, in chronological sections, unknown aspects of Greek art, from 19th century to the present day....

A Tribute to Yannis Moralis

In 1988, the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum organised the first major retrospective exhibition of Yannis Moralis. This retrospective traced the artist’s creative development and demonstrated the quality and consistency of his work. It was during the same year that Yannis Moralis made a generous donation of 113 of his works to the National Gallery. One year after his death, our muse...

Metzikof. Theatre Costumes and Masks. From the Stage to the Museum

More than 100 sumptuous costumes and 130 impressive masks testify to the artist’s huge output for theatre productions of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides to Shakespeare, Chekov and Terzakis....

New Acquisitions of the National Gallery from 1992 to 2010. From the 19th to the 21st century: Performing Arts

The National Gallery-Museum-Alexander Soutsos acquired the last 18 years some 3,000 works from legacies, donations and purchases. These include major donations of the works of Tetsis, Nicolaou, Mytaras Fasianos, Daniel, but also individual donations of many other artists. There are also four major donations of sculptural works of Ioannis Avramidis, Frosso Efthimiadi-Menegaki, Bella Raftopoulou a...

The exhibition “PARIS 1900, Art Nouveau and Modernism - Treasures from the Petit Palais, City of Paris Fine Art Museum” to open its doors at the National Gallery on 22 November 2010, transports us to the French capital of the Belle Époque through works of French art from the collections of the Petit Palais, with their unique evocation of the bourgeois and lower-class Paris of the 1880-1914 perio...

National Gallery New Acquisitions 1992-2010. One Century of Modern Greek Art

The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum has in the last 18 years acquired some 3,000 works through endowments, donations and purchases. These include the large donations of works by painters Tetsis, Nikolaou, Mytaras, Fassianos, Daniel, and individual donations by many other artists. Also included are characteristic works from four major donations of sculptural works by Ioannis Avramidi...

New Acquisitions at the National Gallery 1992-2010. Abstraction - New Trends

The National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum has over the past 18 years acquired some 3,000 artworks from bequests, donations and purchases. These include the large donations of works by painters Tetsis, Nikolaou, Mytaras, Fassianos, Daniel, and individual donations by many other artists. Also included are characteristic works from four major donations of sculptures by Ioannis Avramidis, Fross...

A City Called Spain. Contemporary Spanish Architecture

On the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the EU, SEACEX (www.seacex.es) and the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum have organized at the National Glyptotheque of Athens (Army Park, Goudi) the exhibition A City Called Spain. Contemporary Spanish Architecture, curated and designed by Manuel Blanco, Professor of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid.The exhibition depicts t...

Ernst Ziller (1837-1923)

When it became the capital city of the kingdom of Greece, in 1834, Athens was still a village as far as urban planning was concerned – indeed, a decaying village. European architects and urban planners participated in the interventions made already in the early years of the reign of Otto, who regarded the rebirth of Athens as a “European cause”. This rebirth, naturally, was a long time in coming...

The exhibition traced the shift from Rococo to Neoclassicism through 150 rare masterpieces mostly from the Louvre but also from other museums in France and other countries. Most of these exhibits, which include paintings, sculptures, furniture, tapestries and other luxury items, come from royal collections.The exhibition spanned the last period of Luis XV’s reign (third quarter of the 18th centu...

Tribute to the Volunteers. Costumes and Sets from the Opening Ceremony for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games

The Athens Olympics Opening Ceremony returns in a major exhibition dedicated to the people who helped create it: the 7,000 volunteers.Costumes and other items, photographs and videos from the rehearsals and the Opening Ceremony for the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games are on display at the exhibition, including images from the boat and the Olympic rings of fire on water, from the Cycladic figurine and ...

Achilleas Droungas - Retrospective

Achilles Droungas seems to concur with the view set forth by Leon Batista Alberti in his 1435 treatise On Painting: “Painting is an open window to the world”. In fact, the modern artist often paints trompe l’oeil frames or introduces in his paintings curtains that make the spectacle revealed behind this frame seem even more life-like. This spectacle is a world of crystalline clarity, in which or...

Greek painters - From the collection of the National Bank of Greece

The roughly 200 paintings on display at the National Gallery of Greece are but a fraction of the enormous collection of the National Bank of Greece, which comprises upwards of 2,500 works. The exhibition featured a series of portraits of the bank’s Governors made by famous artists. They were selected for their historical importance and aesthetic merit in order to trace without gaps, to the exten...

Goya. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Participating in the commemorative events organized throughout the world for the 180th anniversary of the death of the great Spanish artist Goya (1746-1828), a display of the four famous series of etchings in the museum’s permanent collections was held at the National Gallery.They comprise 212 extremely rare and valuable original prints acquired in 1961-1965 by the late Marinos Kalligas, Directo...

Nikos Lytras, 1883-1927. Building with Light and Colour

The National Gallery presents one of the boldest representatives of early Greek Modernism in a retrospective exhibition comprising 180 oil paintings, pastels, aquarelles, drawings, and ample supporting material. Son of artist Nikiforos Lytras, Nikos Lytras was given his first painting lessons by his father. In 1903, he graduated with distinction from the Athens “School of Arts” and, from 1907 on...

Classical Memories in Modern Greek Art

The exhibition “Classical Memories in Modern Greek art” was organized and presented for the first time in winter 1999-2000 to mark the inauguration of the Cultural Centre of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation in the Olympic Tower in New York. An enriched version was held in Istanbul, at the Kemal Ataturk Cultural Centre (22/5/2003-30/6/2003). In October 2007, the exhibition inaug...

New Acquisitions 1992-2007. Purchases – Donations – Endowments

The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum has acquired more than 2,300 artworks in the last 15 years through endowments, donations and purchases. These include the major donations of works by the painters Tetsis, Nikolaou, Mytaras, Fassianos, Daniel and donations of individual works by Pavlos, Dekoulakos, Botsoglou, Skoulakis, Christakis, Skourtis, Bokoros, Rorris and others, as well as w...

To honor Greece. Bequest of French artists to the National Gallery

The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum has joined in the centennial celebrations of the French Institute of Athens by hosting an exhibition of artworks that were donated by French artists to commemorate the heroism of the Greek Resistance against their German occupiers. The bequest, which includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Marquet, Picabia, Masson, Bourdelle, Laurens, and oth...

Yannoulis Chalepas

Yannoulis Chalepas was born to a family of marble cutters in 1851 at Pyrgos on the island of Tinos. He completed a bright education, first at the School of Arts in Athens, under Neoclassical sculptor Leonidas Drossis and then at the Munich Academy, under another Neoclassical sculptor, Max Ritter von Widnmann, on scholarship from the Panhellenic Holy Foundation of the Evangelistria of Tinos. Chal...

Paris - Athens 1863-1940

The history of modern Greek art is generally seen as revolving around the bipolar relationship Athens-Munich and Athens-Paris. The so-called "Munich School", which prevailed in the Greek art scene in the latter half of the 19th century, has been extensively studied and illuminated, and the misconceptions surrounding it have been resolved. The exhibition "Paris – Athens" aims to illuminate the re...

Marino Marini. An Archaic Sculptor of Modern Art

The exhibition of Marino Marini, the most important exponent of modern Italian sculpture and one of the greatest 20th-century sculptors, was inaugurated at the National Glyptotheque parallel to the opening of the Greek sculpture permanent display.Marini studied painting, printmaking and sculpture in Florence. He went for long stays to Paris, where he met the leaders of modern art (Picasso, Braqu...

Symeon Savvidis

The enchanting Orient, the atmosphere, the opulent interiors, ornate costumes, the harems and odalisques, the mythical cosmos of European Orientalists, for Symeon Savvidis was not a utopian paradise or an imaginary place. Savvidis was an genuine oriental, a Greek whose roots went back to the depths of Asia Minor. The themes depicted by the European Orientalists are the product of s...

Fernando Botero

Botero started out from a small Colombian town to become one of the most successful artists of our times. His art is rooted in the folk art tradition of his homeland, while at the same time conveying the influence of great Western European artists – from Giotto, Piero della Francesca, and Velázquez to Picasso.The retrospective exhibition comprised works of all periods of his creation; among them...

Georgios Iakovidis - Retrospective

The National Gallery organized a major retrospective exhibition of the preeminent exponent of the Munich School and the museum’s first director.Georgios Iakovidis enjoyed prominence at the forefront of Greek art life during the critical first three decades of the 20th century. Critical, not only in that the great changes then underway in the political and social sectors formed the ...

Lucas Samaras: Retrospective. Adventures of the Ego

The mirror is the instrument par excellence in Samaras’s art, and the artist’s own reflection is his privileged model. Lucas Samaras is a metic; a triumphant metic, of course, as he has secured a prominent place in the history of contemporary American culture. Yet, deep inside him he is a castaway living in self-imposed exile in the invented little island of his art. It is there that he creates ...

Fassianos. Everyday Mythologies

Alekos Fassianos may be regarded as a successor of the Generation of the Thirties.The dominant myth of “Greekness”, of faith in the timeless Greek values, the only ones which, according to the beliefs of this acclaimed generation, ensured authenticity and national validity to the works of a Greek artist, seems to have been the compass for Alekos Fassianos’s explorations. His childhood, spent in ...

Six Leading Sculptors and the Human Figure. Rodin, Bourdelle, Maillol, Brancusi, Giacometti, Moore

Sculpture has played a pivotal role in the history of the Olympic Games. The very form of ancient Greek art was determined by its relation with the athletic ideal. Greek art abounds with fit and graceful nude bodies of youthful champions in the national games....

Christos Capralos, Attribute to Olympia - Sculpture in wood

At the time the Henry Moore Retrospective was held, an exhibition of the monumental wooden sculptures by the great Greek artist Christos Kapralos was presented at the National Glyptotheque, Building 2.In 1965, a new material, pliable eucalyptus tree trunks, entered the sculptor’s creative horizon, giving him new stimuli and introducing new forms. The artist was inspired by the shapes of the trun...

Ιmperial treasures from China, Chinese Art: a Philosophy of Nature and Life

Coinciding with the Olympics 2004, the exhibition “Imperial Treasures from China” in the National Gallery of Athens heralds the Olympics 2008, which are scheduled to take place in Beijing. It is a happy coincidence: The cities hosting the two consecutive Olympic Games are the cradles of two of the most ancient and most important civilizations of the Western and Eastern worlds respectively. Thus,...

Nafplion Annex Temporary Exhibitions 2004 - 2009

"1821. Figures & Themes from the Greek War of Independence"From the Collection of the National Gallery and the Evripidis Koutlidis FoundationInauguration of the new National Gallery annex at NafplionSponsor: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation08/05/2004...

In the light of Apollo. Italian Renaissance and Greece

The trend to revisit the teachings of Antiquity became universal during the Italian Renaissance. From its first intimations in the mid-14th century, in Boccaccio’s and Petrarch’s times, this refreshing spirit of a discourse with Antiquity came to prevail in all aspects of cultural life in the 15th century (the Quattrocento), with Florence, Venice, and the princely courts of the Italian peninsula...

National theatre. National costume. The National Theatre at the National Gallery of Greece

Theatre costumes for the Greek National Theatre, worn and animated by legendary Greek actors: Kyveli, Kotopouli, Paxinou, Papadaki, Aroni, Lambeti, Karezi, Veakis, Glinos, Zervos, Nezer, Minotis, Kotsopoulos, Horn, to cite but a few of those who are no longer with us. Costumes designed by inspired artists: Fokas, Klonis, Vakalo, Ghika, Tsarouchis, Moralis, to mention only the most senior ones.Th...

Picasso's century. Spanish art of the 20th century

In the exhibition of 20th-century Spanish art, art lovers had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with characteristic works from the wealthy collections of the National Museum - Reina Sofia Art Centre and with the great artists who played, or continue to play, a role in the international art scene: from Picasso, Juan Gris, Gonzalez, Miró, Dali to Tàpies, Chillida, Antonio Lopez Garcia, the ...

The Golden Age of Dutch Painting. From the collection of the Dordrechts Museum

The National Gallery of Greece, in cooperation with the Dordrechts Museum, organized the exhibition “The Golden Age of Dutch Painting – The Dordrechts Museum Collection”. Dordrechts is the oldest city in the Netherlands. Its museum, of international fame, was founded 160 years ago. The museum remained closed until June 2002 for renovation: this allowed the presentation of a significant number of...

Nikolaos Gysis 1842-1901

An emblematic figure of modern Greece, Nikolaos Gysis never ceased to be admired and appeal to people’s hearts. The artist’s life, personality and work epitomize symbolic values that make him a national model of transcendence....

Unknown Treasures from the National Gallery Collections

Unknown Treasures in the National Gallery Collections is the last major event to be organised before the National Gallery embarks on its expansion project. Featuring works from the National Gallery and Evripidis Koutlidis Foundation collections, this exhibition is important on several grounds. The most obvious raison d’être for this event, which realizes a personal vision of mine, is as an indic...

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava’s exhibition, held at the National Gallery from March 21 to June 18, 2001, offered a panorama of ideas and images from the work of this universal artist who experiments and expresses himself in many different ways.Calatrava’s architectural projects grew out of experimentation with sculptural volume and evolving ideas and solutions elaborated in his sculptures. The reciprocity ...

National Gallery 100 Years. Four Centuries of Greek Painting

In 2000, The National Gallery of Greece celebrated 100 years in existence. This historic anniversary, which coincided with the celebrations for the millennium, was punctuated by the grand opening of the new display of the permanent collections, in the buildings refurbished through the generous sponsorship of the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation.The interiors were renovated according to an aestheti...

Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrand

Jointly organized by the National Gallery of Greece, Dordrechts Museum and the Netherlands Institute in Athens, the exhibition “Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt” featured extraordinary examples of 16th- and 17th-century Flemish and Dutch painting inspired by the mythology and history of ancient Greece. The importance of the exhibition lies in the fact that for the first t...

Athens - Munich: Art and Culture in Modern Greece

The London Treaty signed on April 25, 1832, by the representatives of the Great Powers, appointed the young Otto, the second-born son of the King Ludwig I of Bavaria, as King of Greece. Ludwig was an ardent philhellene and lover of the Greek antiquity. It is to his vision that Munich owes its neoclassical style. Otto’s election and Ludwig’s managerial supervision were instrumental in shaping ide...

Panayiotis Tetsis - Painting

Panayiotis Tetsis remains one of the last advocates of the painting of the gaze. A gaze nourished by a long painting tradition that began with the great 16th-century Venetian masters, Tiziano and Veronese, through Greco, Rubens, Chardin and Delacroix, to Matisse, Vuillard, Bonnard, even Rothko. All of the painters who inhabit the “imaginary museum” of Tetsis are colourists....

Treasures of Modern Greek Art. The Giannis Perdios collection

A private collection is always of particular interest, perhaps not strictly in the art historical sense, but as a symbolic representation of an individual’s taste, an indirect reflection of the spirit of the times. In this respect, a collection is special case in reception theory. The exhibits of “Modern Greek Art Treasures” on display at the National Gallery of Greece are the rich fruit of a lo...

Greece in Israel: Contemporary Greek Art - Three Generations

The exhibition featuring 14 artists who represented Greece at the Museum of Modern Art in Tel-Aviv came to the National Gallery of Greece. The exhibitions run concurrently with the counterpart exhibition “Contemporary Art from Israel – Three Generations”.The artists featured in the exhibition were: Nikos Kessanlis, Kostas Tsoklis, Dimitris Mytaras (1960s generation); Chronis Botsoglou, Giannis P...

Greece in Israel: Contemporary Greek Art - Three Generations

The exhibition featuring 14 artists who represented Greece at the Museum of Modern Art in Tel-Aviv came to the National Gallery of Greece. The exhibition run concurrently with its counterpart, “Contemporary Art from Israel – Three Generations”....

Akrithakis. Retrospective 1963-1994

Zefirelli. Theater Designs

Franco Zefirelli is undoubtedly one of the most famous and popular film directors in the world. Zefirelli’s multifaceted creative nature harks back to the Renaissance ideal of the universal man. The Italian film director and set designer served equally all the performing arts: theatre, opera, cinema....

Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance an Major Humanist and Monastery Libraries

The exhibition “The Great Libraries”, organized by the architect Konstantinos Staikos, a great book lover and collector, showcased the greatest humanistic libraries in the world through heirlooms of their treasures: calligraphy codices, incunabula, rare books were gathered for the first time in this unique exhibition. Scientific advisor: Konstantinos Staikos Dr. Nelly Missirli, Director of Colle...

Theodoros Stamos 1922-1997. Retrospective

The son of a large family of immigrants from the Ionian island of Lefkas, Theodoros Stamos was born and grew up in New York. At age 21, he was not only a mature artist with a personal idiom, but had already achieved a valid place in the New York art scene, with his first exhibition at Betty Parsons’s historic gallery. Stamos belonged to the Abstract Expressionist School, several members of which...

Joannis Avramidis. A Classic of Contemporary Sculpture

Ioannis Avramidis has been an established artist in the international contemporary sculpture scene for several decades now. A Greek of the Diaspora, born in Vatum, he studied and settled in Vienna. His fame soon spread beyond the Austrian borders into other European countries, which honoured him with exhibitions, participations in international events and distinctions.Although Avramidis is consi...

Vladimir Velickovic

The Vladimir Velickovic exhibition at the National Gallery is the recognition and vindication of an artistic choice for Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. Vladimir Velickovic is one of the leading contemporary artists of Europe, of Yugoslav origin. He was born in 1935 in Belgrade and since 1966 lives and works in Paris. His work joins the destiny of man and of our world,...

The Greek War of Independence - Delacroix and the French Painters 1815-1848

The exhibition “The Greek War of Independence - Delacroix and the French Painters”, jointly organized by the National Gallery of Greece and the French National Museum Association, was first held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and then at the Delacroix Museum in Paris.Philhellenism, the moral yet above all practical support to the Greek nation, then fighting for independence, which manife...

Art at the end of the 20th Century - Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art

A key to our understanding of art in the last decades of the 20th century would be “a boom in the field of artistic creation”. The diversity of several, often disparate, movements is accompanied by another key characteristic: the abolition of the traditional boundaries which divided the arts from life. Contrary to the purity and autonomy of modern art, post-modern art indulges in all kinds of cr...

Russian Avant-Garde (1910-1930). The G. Kostakis Collection

The Russian avant-garde developed in the historical context and ideological milieu which paved the way for the Russian Revolution.Rayonism and Cubism-Futurism became the dominant movements in the Russian art scene in the early years after 1910. Later on, around 1915, two great movements, Suprematism and Constructivism, prevailed, alongside other Abstract movements. The Russian avant-garde today ...

El Greco in Italy and Italian Art

When Domenikos Theotokopoulos left his native Candia, Crete, then a Venetian possession, to go to Venice, probably in 1567, he had already reached a mature age – he was 26 – and was an acclaimed painter in the Byzantine tradition.The ten years of Domenikos Theotokopoulos’s sojourn in Italy (1567-1577) served as a “school” in which a Byzantine master was transformed into a Western artist, not onl...

Yannis Spyropoulos

Gates of Mystery: Treasures of Orthodoxy from Holy Russia

The 11th-century “Great Chronicle” documents the bedazzlement of the representatives of Prince Vladimir of Kiev when he visited the Haghia Sophia, in 988. The prince was later to adopt Christianity, thus setting the foundation for establishing Holy Russia with the Orthodox religion as the cohesive agent.In the 9th century, the Greek saints Cyril and Methodius created the Slavic alphabet, based o...

The Child in Greek Art. 19th-20th Century

The exhibition “The Child in Greek Art. 19th-20th Century” proposed a fascinating journey, not only into the children’s world, but also into the private realm of the Greek family and society. It traced the development of Modern Greek art and the transformation of society through a particularly popular theme.In historical painting, children were seen as supporters and witnesses of the Greek War o...

Icons of Cretan Art: from Candia to Moscow and St. Petersburg

Between two tragic landmarks in Greek history, the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Fall of Candia in 1669, Crete, then a Venetian possession, became an oasis of culture. The spirit of the Renaissance, which revitalised intellectual life, also imbued the Cretan iconography of the Post-Byzantine tradition.Bringing together more than 200 works from Crete, Mount Athos, Greek and Russian museu...

Collection of the Bank of Greece. Greek Painting and Prints

Modern Greek Art is represented by a number of eminent creative artists who, inspired by daily life and nature, have rendered palpable the quintessential Greek light and captured the glitter of limpid waters surrounding their land....

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol: a name identified with the movement represented by the artist -Pop Art; a popular art, which borrowed advertising forms and approaches and managed to build a new bridge for communication between the contemporary visual arts and consumers. No other 20th-century artist -except for Picasso and Dalí- commanded such universal recognition. The artist’s own marketing strategy is transparen...

From El Greco to Cézanne

The monumental exhibition “From El Greco to Cézanne” was held under a successful programme of cultural exchange between Greece and the U.S.A. to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the birth of the Greek Democracy. The exhibition “From El Greco to Cézanne” comprised 72 masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition “The Greek ...

Regional Museums and Cultural Organisations

Metamorphoses of the Modern. The Greek experience

The historical framework of the modernist ideology is determined by the new social reality, reflecting the industrial revolution and the notion of progress. The ground was paved in the 19th century, but modernism broke out in a prismatic and explosive manner in the early 20th, on the eve of World War I. The break with tradition now became a conscious need, the battle-cry for renewal. This was pr...

Corfu Annex Temporary Exhibitions 1992 - 2007

Yannis Pappas

This exhibition featured representative works from over 60 years of uninterrupted activity by the artist, starting from his youth in Paris, through works made during the War and the German Occupation in Athens and the early post-war years in Alexandria, Egypt, to a 30-year period in Greece, where he returned as a professor and then director of the Athens School of Fine Arts.Yannis Pappas, member...

Goya: Caprichos, Desastres de la guerra, Tauromaquia, Disparates

Inauguration of the building of the National Gallery

In 14 May 1970, the first of the two buildings of the National Gallery was inaugurated with an exhibition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary from Nikolaos Gyzis death. Some paintings and engravings by Greek and foreign artists, sculptures, objects and furniture, mainly by the Odysseas Fokas bequest, have been exhibited as well. ...